Meet Michael Barrett, the Adirondack Mountain Club’s new executive director
April 7, 2020
Michael Barrett talks about his new role as the executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and what's next for the organization.
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April 7, 2020
Michael Barrett talks about his new role as the executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and what's next for the organization.
April 2, 2020
A clause in the legislation allows Robert Mujica, the state budget director, to kill the bond act before it heads to a public vote if the current economic tailspin means conditions aren't right this fall.
By Tim Rowland
March 31, 2020
By Tim Rowland The timing of his tenure as Region 5 director for the Department of Environmental Conservation is not lost on Robert Stegemann. “I came in with Hurricane Irene and I’m going out with the coronavirus,” he said. But in between it was quite a run, a decade that is likely to be noted…
March 31, 2020
An Adirondack Park forest ranger has tested positive for the coronavirus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo looks at hospital partnerships between upstate and downstate.
March 27, 2020
“Most of us want to get here because we feel safer and because we don't want to get stranded for months someplace else."
By Melissa Hart
March 26, 2020
Some Adirondack-area distilleries are switching gears and turning their product into hand sanitizer.
March 25, 2020
The hospital has turned the old ambulatory surgery unit that had already been undergoing renovations into a temporary inpatient facility, increasing capacity for coronavirus patients by 50 percent and adding another four ICU beds.
March 24, 2020
The Essex County Board of Supervisors had a message for second home-owners and visitors to the Adirondacks on Tuesday: Stay away.
By Tim Rowland
March 24, 2020
This 150-acre lake is a popular venue for anglers, boaters, hikers and birdwatchers. It was created nearly two centuries ago when the industrialists dammed up Putts Creek at the head of a precipitous chasm whose falls from the mountains into the Champlain Valley produced an awesome amount of industrial muscle.
By Melissa Hart
March 20, 2020
In a post on Sunday, March 15, Dan Berggren writes “So what's a musician to do? Write a song and share it with you, so you can sing it and pass it on, too.”